Tire.



No. 893,832. PATENTED JULY 21, 1908. H. B. BARUOH.

TIRE.

. APPLICATION FILED APR. 24. 1907.

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' HERMAN 'BJBARUGH, or New froaic'iigr No. 893,832. Specification'of Letters Patent. Patented July 21, 1908.

Application filed April 24, 1907 Serial no. 369,904.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

i 'Be it known that I, HFRMAN B. BARUOH, a

citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, 5'. and State of New York, have inventedacery tain new and useful Improvement in'lires, of! the tube-sections may .be. constructed in which the following isa specification. ivariousways. lireferably rt consistslof light, T his invention relates to resilient tires! 'fleirib'le iabrieextending betweeniadjaeent adapted particularly for use on thewheels of? tube-sectionsiand'buckled inoreo tlesslwhen ,Io sel'f propelled vehiclesz. the sections are intacttj A plurality of The invention:isidirected tot-he provision .sbeets of such a fabric may be employed,

4 of an improved for-fact "tire possessing ,the each secured at its edges to the interior of the strength and resiliency of those now in comshoe and forming a partition between ad termined amount: 01- expansion :is. permitted, not more than one section could expand sufliciently to corneiin contact with the nai l,.'and Lthe tireiicould still be used; 1' The; means: for limiting t 60 he expansion of 55 engagement with.

. would be punctured. When only a prede- B Q'able valves are arranged for disconnecting -the sections one from another, so that should one of them become punctured, the air Wlll :m'it-bc-oXhaustcd from another or' others thcrrstlu'gmgli. .YVithsuch an inner-tube oi 35 expanfi'blesectionsi'scombineda means for more than i a predetermined precluding amount of expansionoi a section-v Thus, if

one or more sections were punctured, the two sections adyacent thereto would expand 4'0 to {ill or partially ill the spabe formerly occupied by the collapsed section and if no means were provided for limiting the amount of expansion of the sections and this space to be entering through the shoe and section and this nail were to remain in place, the expansion of the adjacent sections, if nolimiting means were provided, would carry them into the nail and. they, too,

50 puncture of a section were caused by a nail "end within. the

- is buckled more or less.

vided with flanges 4 at its edges, adapted to 'coa'ct with flanges formed on the lateral edges of the outer tube or shoe 5 to hold the .latter in placel The shoe 5 may be of any suitableconstruction. j The. inner tube; consists of a plurality of expansible t'ube sectio'ns' 6 arrangeden'd .t'o

, shoe A bulb orb-all of thin rubber or other suitable material anaiy be employed for each of the sections 6. A tube 7 is sealed into each section 6 for admitting or exhausting air, in order to inflate or deflate the tire. The sections 6 are preferably Between each pair of adjacent tube-sec? tions 6, extends a sheet of flexible fabric, which, when the two sections are inflated, As shown in Figs,

J :mon use and having an inner tube consisting jacent tube-sections. Or the fabric maybe 15 0f a plurality of expansible tube-sections so in the form of a bag inclosingorpartially inarranged that the collapsing of one or morc closinga tube-section 'nwhich caseit need of the sections does not render the tire useless. rnotbepermanently connect'ell to theinterior In accordance with the invention, the, ioftheshoe... outer tube or shoe may be similar to those; The:preferred embodiment of my invenaoznow generally used, but the inner tube con-i :tionis illustrated in the accompanying draw- -sistsoiiaplurality-of individual tube sectionsl :ings, in which.

each of which is expansible, bulbs otthin, Figure 1-.is alongitudinal section of aperirubbcr being preferably employed for thisl .tion of the tire;"Fig. 2 is a transverse section purpose.- A connection to eachbulb-fora'd of the. same and Figs. fl, and flare similar lgpmitting'rand exhausting air to inflate or de-l viewsof a modified form of tire. flate the tire is preferably providedandthese: .t Referring to ,these drawings, '1 mdicatcs may all be connected to a common source of? the fellyo'ii a .wheel's'uppor'ted on" spokes 2 supply, so that all of the tube-sections may and having a metallic rim 3 encircling and be simultaneously inflated; in this case suit-1 secured upon the telly, this rim being pro- 5:.

simultaneously inflated; 'for this purfilled were. unusually large, due to the size of pose, a tube 8 is provided, to which all of the og 45 the sections or the number of collapsed sectubes 7 are connected, a valve 9 beingpreftions, the sections adjacent to the space to be erably provided in each of these connections lillcd would expand so much that they, too, so that the several sections may be disconwould collapse and so on until the tire would nected one from another when pro crly in be rendered unsuitable foruse; Also, if the flated. The tube 8 is rovided wit a suit- {m5 1 and 2, this sheet of fabric 11 is secured at its edges to the interior of the shoe 5, as by means of cement, or it may be formed intogral with the fabric of the shoe, so that it forms a partition betwccn the two tubesections, permanently connected to the shoe and adapted to be bulged out to one side or the other to permit expansion of one of the tube-sections but preclude more than a predetermined amount of expansion. Thus, if the section indicated by the numeral 6 in Fig. 1 were to collapse, the two sections adjacent thereto would expand and bulge out the two partitions 11 between them toward each other, so that the parts would then occupy the positions indicated by the dotted lines in that figure. The two sections 6 thus expanded would press the tread of shoe 5 outwardly from the rim, so that the tire could still be used, and,also there would be no danger of the sections 6 expanding to so greatan extent that they too would collapse. If the section 6 were to be punctured by a nail passing through the shoe and section and this nail were to remain in place, the partitions 11 might revent the sections 6, 6, adjacent to the col apsed section, from expanding so much as to come in contact with this nailand be punctured thereby in any case, however, not more than one section adjacent tothe collapsed section could expand enough to be punctured by the nail, and the two sections adjacent to the space formerly occupied by these two punctured sections would expand and fill so much of the space as to permit further use of the tire without stopping for re airs.

In Figs. 3 and 4, I have shown a slight modification of the embodiment of my invention above described, with respect to the construction of the expansion-limiting means. Instead of em loying partitions 11, 'whieh are permanent y secured to the interior of the shoe, casings 12 are provided, partially or entirely inclosing each of the tube-scctions, these casings being made of flexible fabric. Each of these casings is buckled more or less within the shoe 5 when all of the tube-sections 6 are intact, and is of such size as to permit the tube-section inelosed thereby to expand as much as is desired and preclude any further expansion. This form of my invention possesses all of the advantages above set forth in connection with the form illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, and the further advantage that the expansion-limiting means is not secured to the shoe.

I do not wish to be understood as limited to the exact construction which I have herein shown and described, as other modifications can be made therein without de arting from the spirit of my invention, and a I such modifications I aim to cover by the terms of the appended claims.

'Having now described my invention, what I-claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:-

1. A tire having an outer tube or shoe, an inner tube comprising a plurality of expansible tube-sections, and flexible parts within said shoe extending between said sections and being looseunder normal conditions, said arts permitting said sections to expand to fill space adjacent thereto formerly occupied by a section which has'j'collapsed but precluding more than a predetermined amount of expansion of said sections, substantially as set forth.

2. A tire having an outer tube or shoe, an inner tube comprising a plurality ofexpansible, inflatable casing extending about each of said sections, said casing being loose under normal conditions and serving to preclude more than a predetermined amount of expansion of a section to fill space adjacent thereto formerly occupied by a section which has been punctured, substantially as set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 19th day of April, 1907.

HE RMAN B. BARUUH. Witnesses:

ARTHUR .lIoFnmM Eu", 1). S. EoMoNns.

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